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Category: Arts
Picture of lighthouse wins drone photography competition
Food blogger is busted for cheating in half marathon by eagle-eyed viewer who spotted distance on her GPS watch was out – as she confesses to taking short-cut AND using a BIKE Homeland Security blocks Syrian cinematographer, 21, from entering America and attending Oscars where his film is nominated for Best Documentary Short Pope goes soft on paedophile priests – including one let off with just a lifetime of prayer for abusing five young boys First planned contact between North Korea and the U.S. in Trump administration is CANCELLED after top envoy is denied US visa ‘He’s the embodiment of awfulness in millennial conservatism’: The 16-year-old Canadian girl reveals how she took down Milo Yiannopoulos by exposing how he tried to rationalize pedophilia Beloved magician Daryl Easton is found dead inside closet of Hollywood’s famed Magic Castle ‘wearing only his underwear’ after he failed to … (more)
Around Livingston for Feb. 23, 2017
A Mobile Disaster Recovery Center has opened in Livingston Parish for homeowners, renters and business owners who sustained damage in the Feb. 7 tornadoes. The center will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays at the Livingston Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, 20399 Government Blvd., Livingston.
Saif Ali Khan talks about daughter Sara Ali Khan’s debut in Bollywood
Mumbai: Rangoon actor is left behind as Saif Ali khan’s children are grabbing much more attention on the internet. Yes! Saif does not wish for someone to have that kind of affect on Sara’s career.
Sequins and slogans: Politics seeped into NY Fashion Week
“When you have a voice, you should use it,” designer Raf Simons says. The new Calvin Klein designer did just that, using a particularly pointed David Bowie lyric on his soundtrack.
FLOD Spotlight Magazine: Artwork of Ajamu Walker, Social Canvas – Black Wall Street
Ajamu Kojo is an artist based in New York who recently kicked off his first exhibit called Black Wall Street: A Case For Reparations. A centerpiece of Kojo’s exhibit is a painting called Black Gold which features Dr. Olivia J. Hooker, the first African-American woman to join the U.S. Coast Guard.
Nighttime Philippines quake kills at least 6, damages runway
An Iranian infant soon will have life-saving heart surgery in Portland after she was temporarily banned from coming into the U.S. by President Donald Trump’s immigration order. An Iranian infant soon will have life-saving heart surgery in Portland after she was temporarily banned from coming into the U.S. by President Donald Trump’s immigration order.
What do we do in the time of Trump? The theater community is trying to figure out the answer.
For Adam Immerwahr, artistic director of Washington’s Theater J, it was a no-brainer. As an offering in the company’s upcoming season, he’d been mulling “Sotto Voce,” a play by the Pulitzer-winning Nilo Cruz concerning the SS St. Louis, a German ocean liner filled with hundreds of Jewish refugees, that at the start of World War II was turned away by the United States and other nations.
Today in History
On Jan. 26, 1942, the first American Expeditionary Force to head to Europe during World War II arrived in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Hundreds of New Jersey Women and Allies March on Trenton
On Sat., Jan. 21, hundreds of women, their families, and their allies arrived in our state’s capital city to participate in the Women’s March By Pastor Bill Laky – In November, a reader asked, “How can/should one reconcile Christian faith with belonging to a political party (or even TRENTON — On Sat., Jan. 21, hundreds of women, their families, and their allies arrived in our state’s capital city to participate in the Women’s March on Trenton. The day’s events included 40 powerful speakers, musical guests, and a march to the steps of the State House.
The 5 craziest hours in the White House
The most frenzied American ritual you’ve never seen is called the “transfer of families,” a five-hour tsunami of activity that transforms President Obama’s home into President Trump’s. “I call it organized chaos,” said Gary Walters, who choreographed several transfers of families in his 21 years as the White House chief usher.
Rock musical for kids covers history of American presidency
The Arizona-based Childsplay theater brings its “Rock the Presidents” musical to the Quick Center in Fairfield on Sunday, Jan. 22. The Arizona-based Childsplay theater brings its “Rock the Presidents” musical to the Quick Center in Fairfield on Sunday, Jan. 22. The Arizona-based Childsplay theater brings its “Rock the Presidents” musical to the Quick Center in Fairfield on Sunday, Jan. 22. The Arizona-based Childsplay theater brings its “Rock the Presidents” musical to the Quick Center in Fairfield on Sunday, Jan. 22. The Arizona-based Childsplay theater brings its “Rock the Presidents” musical to the Quick Center in Fairfield on Sunday, Jan. 22. The Arizona-based Childsplay theater brings its “Rock the Presidents” musical to the Quick Center in Fairfield on Sunday, Jan. 22. The Arizona-based Childsplay theater brings its “Rock the Presidents” musical to the Quick Center in Fairfield on … (more)
Weird War Over Congress Pig-Cop PaintingBy Matt Laslo
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are supposed to be the grownups in the room, but a spat over a high school student’s painting is revealing their childish tendencies-and the episode could have broad implications for race relations under President Donald J. Trump . Every year high school students across the U.S. compete to get their art hung in the Capitol where it’s on display for the millions of visitors who walk through the complex annually, but this year one young artist’s work has inflamed racial tensions among lawmakers and revived a debate over police tactics.
Exploring the ‘Lost City of the Monkey God’
To pigeonhole Douglas Preston a true-crime author is a gross understatement of his skills as a writer.
Congressman takes down student’s art
A Republican lawmaker removed a high school student’s painting from a Capitol Hill display Friday because it shows a pig in a police uniform aiming a gun at African-American protesters. The image was inspired by the shooting and protests in Ferguson, Mo.
Footage shows woman flung to ground after being struck by LIGHTNING in Brazil
Weed belong together: Mariah Carey is pictured at a marijuana dispensary on Christmas Eve – as it’s revealed she DID do a soundcheck before ‘sabotaged’ New Year lip-sync disaster Tearful Colorado mother pleads for help finding her six-year-old boy after he ‘wandered away’ from their home on New Year’s Eve and vanished Elon Musk’s SpaceX blames a fault in helium canister for massive Falcon 9 rocket explosion that destroyed Facebook’s $200m internet satellite Will President Obama use the five-minute break between congressional sessions tomorrow to appoint Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court? The Donald blasts Rahm Emanuel for Chicago’s bloodiest year in almost two DECADES: Trump says the mayor must ask for federal help if he can’t fix the city after a record 762 homicides in 2016 Can sugar really give you CANCER? Diet author reveals how the smallest amount can trigger health problems such … (more)
Highlights from New Yorker Interactive and Multimedia Stories of 2016
One mark of a good story is that you fall into it, enraptured by every detail. The same is true of multimedia storytelling-except that, depending on the medium, you can sometimes virtually “fall in.”
Inside the Beltway: Trump’s ‘true’ friends on Capitol Hill
It will be interesting to watch one of the world’s most canny dealmakers enter the White House. President-elect Donald Trump knows that dealmaking is an art rather than science, and wrote a best-selling book on the subject.
Registry
Andrea Cohen directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series and The Writers House at Merrimack College. Her most recent poetry collection is “Furs Not Mine.”
Trump inaugural puts artists in quandary
Several months ago, before the presidential election, San Francisco poet and author Dean Rader found himself engaged in a philosophical debate with some of his fellow poets: If Donald Trump were to win the presidency, and if he asked one of them to compose a poem to be read at the inauguration, would they do it? On the one hand, none of them supported Trump for the presidency. Rader didn’t know many politically conservative poets, in general, and his friends found the prospect of Trump’s election to be “terrifying” and offensive.